v. 1. History and environment.
v. 2. People and production.

Introduction to the Identity of France
V.1. HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT: Foreword
PART I: THE DIVERSITY OF FRANCE: Describing, seeing, and making others see
Explaining France diversity: if it can be explained
Distance: a variable measurement
PART II: THE PATTERN OF SETTLEMENT: VILLAGES, BOURGS AND TOWNS: Starting from the village
Explaining the system: the bourg
Explaining the system: the towns
PART III: WAS FRANCE INVENTED BY ITS GEOGRAPHY? On not exaggerating the role of the French 'isthmus'
Paris, the Ile de France, and the Paris basin
The frontier: a crucial test
Two case studies: Metz and Toulon
History and environment, a few last words.

V.2. PEOPLE AND POPULATION: List of figures
Translator's note
Foreword
BOOK ONE: PEOPLE: NUMBERS AND VARIATIONS: PART I: THE POPULATION OF FRANCE FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES UNTIL THE YEAR 1000: The prehistoric population
From independent Gaul to Carolingian Gaul
PART II: THE POPULATION FROM THE TENTH CENTURY TO OUR OWN TIME: A near-perfect multi-secular cycle: or the early modern age of France and Europe 950-1450
1450-1950: a success story
Recent problems: the triumphs of medicine:birth control, immigration
BOOK TWO: PRODUCTION, A 'PEASANT ECONOMY" UNTIL THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PART III: THE RURAL INFRASTRUCTURES: For how many centuries was France a 'peasant economy'?
Overall characteristics
Animals, vines, cereals and forests
Is any kind of summing-up possible?
Progress all the same
PART IV: SUPERSTRUCTURES: The towns
Circulation and structures
Industry and industrialization
Commerce, always one jump
At the pinnacle of the hierarchy; capitalism
TOWARDS AN OVERALL CONCLUSION.